{"id":540,"date":"2005-09-21T21:52:25","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T01:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/09\/21\/get-ready-for-five-dollar-gas\/"},"modified":"2005-09-21T21:52:25","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T01:52:25","slug":"get-ready-for-five-dollar-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/21\/get-ready-for-five-dollar-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready for Five Dollar Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7092'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"394\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/popups\/2005\/news\/rita_map\/map.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/ritamapsm.gif\" width=\"220\" height=\"174\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/popups\/2005\/news\/rita_map\/map.html\">click<br \/>\n        to enlarge<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">NEW YORK (CNN\/Money) &#8211; Remember when gas spiked to $3-plus<br \/>\n        a gallon after Hurricane Katrina? By this time next week, that could<br \/>\n        seem like the good old days.<\/p>\n<p>        Weather and energy experts say that as bad as Hurricane Katrina hit the<br \/>\n        nation&#8217;s supply of gasoline, Hurricane Rita could be worse.<\/p>\n<p>        Katrina damage was focused on offshore oil platforms and ports. Now the<br \/>\n        greater risk is to oil-refinery capacity, especially if Rita slams into<br \/>\n        Houston, Galveston and Port Arthur, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>        &quot;We could be looking at gasoline lines and $4 gas, maybe even $5<br \/>\n        gas, if this thing does the worst it could do,&quot; said energy analyst<br \/>\n        Peter Beutel of Cameron Hanover. &quot;This storm is in the wrong place.<br \/>\n        And it&#8217;s absolutely at the wrong time,&quot; said Beutel.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2005\/09\/21\/news\/economy\/rita_threat\/index.htm\">CNNMoney<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click to enlarge) NEW YORK (CNN\/Money) &#8211; Remember when gas spiked to $3-plus a gallon after Hurricane Katrina? By this time next week, that could seem like the good old days. Weather and energy experts say that as bad as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/21\/get-ready-for-five-dollar-gas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}